Vegetation Units

Description & Remarks

In a year preceding 1994 Joel de Malaach, a laureate of the Israel Prize for Agriculture, irrigated an area with natural vegetation in the agricultural experimental station he directed. The station is situated 9 km south of Kibbutz Revivim. There were 2-3 species of Helianthemum in that area. Following the irrigation truffles developed below Helianthemum kahiricum shrubs. This was the first and only report of discovering truffles under this species. Italian mycologists who determined the fungi by their truffles provided de Malaach with a name of a fungus that was not found in the last 100 years. The information was not published and due to the death of Joel de Malaach we have no accurate information concerning the name of the fungus.

Prof. Emeritus Avinoam Danin learnt and worked in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for more than 50 years. The information accumulated in the data base and many photographs are his. During his excursion in Israel and neighboring countries he discovered 44 species and 3 subspecies new to science. Three species are named after him.